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Non-Specialist Primary School Mathematics Teachers' Professional Identity
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van Putten, Sonja; Blom, Nicolaas; Dibane, Zanele – Africa Education Review, 2022
This study explored the mathematics teacher identity (MTI) of three purposefully selected grade 6 non-specialist primary school mathematics teachers. The participants' subject matter knowledge and didactical skills were explored by means of semi-structured interviews, lesson observations, and document analysis of lesson plans. The data were…
Descriptors: Mathematics Teachers, Professional Identity, Grade 6, Elementary School Teachers
Metacognitive Awareness and the Zone of Proximal Intermediate Phase Mathematics Teachers' Professional Development
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Potgieter, Erika; van der Walt, Marthie – EURASIA Journal of Mathematics, Science and Technology Education, 2022
This paper investigates in-service intermediate phase mathematics teachers' metacognitive awareness based on their engagement in a professional development intervention in two rural and one township school in South Africa. Professional teacher development interventions should be structured and collaborative as teachers tend to revert to…
Descriptors: Mathematics Teachers, Metacognition, Faculty Development, Foreign Countries
The Effect of Learners' Knowledge of the Divisibility Rules on Their Gaze Behaviour
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Potgieter, Pieter; Blignaut, Pieter – African Journal of Research in Mathematics, Science and Technology Education, 2018
The Department of Basic Education in South Africa has identified factorisation as a problem area in Mathematics teaching. Learners in earlier grades are exposed to mathematical tasks, involving concepts, such as factors of integers, fractions, equivalent fractions and prime numbers, that are easier to solve when the divisibility rules are applied.…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Mathematics Instruction, Grade 4, Grade 5
The Equal Sign: Teachers' Knowledge and Students' Misconceptions
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Vermeulen, Cornelis; Meyer, Bronwin – African Journal of Research in Mathematics, Science and Technology Education, 2017
This article reports on a study that investigated the extent to which 57 Grade 6 students at a particular school have misconceptions regarding equality, with the equal sign as focus. It also investigated this school's three Grade 5 and 6 teachers' mathematical knowledge for teaching regarding equality, again focusing on the equal sign. The…
Descriptors: Elementary School Students, Middle School Students, Grade 6, Mathematics Education
Comparing eLearning and Classroom Instruction on HIV/AIDS Knowledge Uptake and Internalizing among South African and Irish Pupils
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van Zyl, Hendra; Visser, Pieter; van Wyk, Elmarie; Laubscher, Ria – Health Education Journal, 2014
Objective: Innovative public health approaches are required to improve human immunodeficiency virus/acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (HIV/AIDS) education and prevention among adolescents, one of the most vulnerable groups to HIV/AIDS. Consequently, elearning and classroom instruction was assessed for HIV/AIDS knowledge uptake and internalizing…
Descriptors: Public Health, Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome (AIDS), Foreign Countries, Knowledge Level
Writing in Science Classrooms: Some Case Studies in South African and Swedish Second-Language Classrooms
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Mayaba, Nokhanyo; Otterup, Tore; Webb, Paul – African Journal of Research in Mathematics, Science and Technology Education, 2013
Problems of poor performance in science and mathematics education have been related to language deficiencies, including writing skills. Writing to learn science is an important skill but is not easy to acquire, especially when children learn in a second language. In order to investigate possibilities for developing writing in South African and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Content Area Writing, Science Instruction, Case Studies